I saw this ad before I ever saw The Prisoner, and I remember being a bit disappointed with the slow pace of the actual opening credits (having not seen them for years, I really shouldn’t have watched them before going to bed…) Being young and impressionable, and only being dimly aware of where the scenes came from, I thought the ad was pretty amazing and it probably had an indirect influence on the career path I was to take later in life.

Strange, really, how the ad’s dated twice over now, featuring the late ’60s stylings of The Prisoner and chunky late ’80s technology. LBC’s now a different company and a very different station – business pressures and changes to technology have seen to that – and I doubt you’ll ever see a commercial broadcaster ever call itself “the information station” again.